CAASPP Test Results

cde.ca.gov-caaspp-2015e-2.1.1 Last Update: 2022-08-09T19:55:08

California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress

This dataset is a simple combination of multiple years of California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) results, for the years 2015 on. The CAASPP was conducted in 2014, but the 2014 file has a different structure from other years ( it's a "pp" file, see below) so it is excluded from this package.

Download Structure

The Base Download documentation link points to an FTP-like web directory of files, which contain the downloadable files. The other download pages have links to the files in these directories. These directories, as well as the dataset webpages are a bit complex. There seems to be a few different sorts of test result files, but there isn't a clear distinction between them. These fiels include:

I think 'sb' means 'Smarter-Balanced'.

The main page for accessing test results, https://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/, has an inconsistent set of links to result pages for each year. For some years, the links are to "STS" results, others are to "Paper-Based" and for 2018, the links are to the "STS" and "Smarter Balanced" results.

Versions

  1. Initial version
  2. total_tested_with_scores datatype changed from 'unknown' to 'integer' with 'robust_int' transform

License

The source data, from the California Department of Education, does not explicitly reference a license, but since the top-level website for California indicates that data published on the State of California website is generally in the public domain, we assume it is in the public domain. Derived data included in this package is also in the public domain. Metadata in this package ( contained in the metadata.csv file ) is derived from metadata for the source package, and is also in the public domain.

Programs used for data transformation (contained in the notebooks directory), are Copyright 2021 Civic Knowledge, and are relased under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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